Tickets will be sold through each city’s area chamber of commerce. They can also be reserved through the Susan

G. Komen website.

for more information visit our website:www.komen.org

5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250Dallas, TX 75244

Phone: 877.465.6636Fax: 877.465.6635

The Red Carpet is going Pink

Check out our October events:1-Los Angeles, California2-Portland, Oregon3-Seattle, Washington4-Denver, Colorado5-Phoenix, Arizona6-Santa Fe, New Mexico7-Houston, Texas8-Dallas, Texas9-Detroit, Michigan10-Little Rock, Arkansas11-Birmingham, Alabama12-Chicago, Illinois13-Kansas City, Missouri14-Cincinnati, Ohio15-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma16-Minneapolis, Minnesota17-Nashville, Tennessee18-Louisville, Kentucky19-Atlanta, Georgia20-Jacksonville, Florida21-Tampa, Florida22-Miami, Florida23-Charleston, South Carolina24-Raleigh, North Carolina25-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania26-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania27-Roanoake, Virginia28-Washington D.C.29-Boston, Massachusetts30-Baltimore, Maryland31-New York City, NY

U.S. Breast Cancer Facts• A woman has a 1 in 8 risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime.

• Except for skin cancers, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women.

• An estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed among women during 2008.

• An estimated 40,480 women and 450 men were expected to die from breast cancer in during 2008.

• One woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes, and one woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes

• The majority of women with breast cancer have no known significantfamilyhistoryorotherknown risk factors.

• Approximately 95% of all breast cancers occur in women 40 years of age and older.

Source:American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2008American Cancer Society’s Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2007-2008

Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been named

to Worth Magazine’s list of “America’s 100 Best Charities” and has invested more than $1 billion to the fightagainstbreastcancer.SGK has teamed with some of today’s biggest celebrities to produce a new series of promotional events entitled the Pink Carpet series.

The series will kick off on Oct. 1 in Los Angeles, visiting 29 cities across the country and end in New York City. Ellen DeGeneresistheofficialhostessandspokeswoman and will headline with Sheryl Crow, Christina Applegate and other celebrities.